Known For
Acting
Born
May 21, 1948
Place of Birth
Brisbane, Australia
Credits
78 titles
Jonathan Hyde
Biography
Jonathan Hyde (born 21 May 1948) is an Australian-born English actor, well known for his roles as J. Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the White Star Line in Titanic, Egyptologist Allen Chamberlain in The Mummy and Sam Parrish/Van Pelt, the hunter in Jumanji. He is married to the Scottish soprano Isobel Buchanan. They have two daughters, one of which is the actress Georgia King. Hyde was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Among other roles, he played Ferdinand in a 1985 production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is an Associate Member there. He was also an original cast member of Not the Nine O'Clock News, the first series of which was pulled from broadcast because of the General Election of 1979. Hyde has been in numerous films including The Contract, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Land of the Blind, The Tailor of Panama, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, Eisenstein, Anaconda and Richie Rich. He appeared in the 1989 BBC miniseries Shadow of the Noose in which he played the famous barrister Edward Marshall Hall. He has also appeared in several television mysteries, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett, and Midsomer Murders. In 2007, Hyde played Dr. Dorn in Chekhov's The Seagull and the Earl of Kent in King Lear for the RSC in a repertory company that included Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Romola Garai, William Gaunt and Sylvester McCoy. Both plays toured together internationally, before taking up residence in the New London Theatre. The final performance was on 12 January 2008. He reprised his role of Kent in the 2008 television film of King Lear. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Hyde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Sir Douglas Weatherford (voice)
Sophia
The Brutalist
Leslie Woodrow
Sebastian
Nicholas
Hamlet
Claudius
Doctor Jekyll
Henry Jekyll
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Strickler (voice)
All Creatures Great & Small
General Beauvoir
A Very English Scandal
David Napley
Breathe
Dr. Entwistle
Tokyo Trial
President Sir William Webb
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia
Mr. Strickler (voice)
Tokyo Trial
President Sir William Webb
The Crown
Duke of Norfolk
First Born
Alistair
Crimson Peak
Ogilvie
The Strain
Eldritch Palmer
Endeavour
Sir Edmund Sloan
Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
King Lear
Earl of Kent
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Hanan
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Morgan Sinclair
Land of the Blind
Smith
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
Morgan Sinclair
The Contract
Turner
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
George Pentney
Dinotopia 6: The Exit
Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 5: The Virus
Mayor Waldo
Dinotopia 4: New Horizons
Mayor Waldo
Stealing Bess
Edwin Snipe
Dinotopia 3: The Election
Mayor waldo
Dinotopia 2: The Temptation
Mayor waldo
Dinotopia
Foyle's War
Colonel Galt
Spooks
Ilya Gavrik
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Dussan
Princess of Thieves
Prince John
The Tailor of Panama
Cavendish
Attila
Felix
The Prince and the Pauper
Lord Hertford
Eisenstein
Meyerhold
Joan of Arc
The Duke of Bedford
The Mummy
Allen Chamberlain
Beyond Titanic
Self
Titanic
Bruce Ismay
Anaconda
Warren Westridge
Midsomer Murders
Frank Webster
Jumanji
Van Pelt / Sam Parrish
Bliss
Dr. Oliver Pleasance
Ri¢hie Ri¢h
Herbert Cadbury